Friday morning Rangers stuff

One week ago today, the Rangers played their last game of the season. I still haven't watched a single pitch since then.

Anthony Andro has grades for the Rangers position players and the Rangers pitchers.

The Rangers met with 18 year old Japanese pitcher Shohei Otani, who is trying to decide between playing professionally in Japan and coming to the United States.

Richard Durrett writes that Josh Hamilton's popularity could play in to what sort of contract he lands this offseason. Durrett also looks at Hamilton's approach, and the pluses and minuses with that.

Randy Galloway has a column about the national backlash Nolan Ryan's comments about how Josh Hamilton should have waited until after the season was over to try to quit dipping generated.

Evan Grant defends the Rangers' decision to have Michael Young play first base and Mike Napoli DH in the Wild Card Game, despite that decision ultimately resulting in the Rangers losing their DH in the game.